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Ten years in prison? Your career? Or just your permanent record?

A little over two years ago, our friend and comrade Tim DeChristopher put it all on the line when he entered a federal auction and derailed it so that oil and gas companies could not destroy the planet.

Tim is now facing ten years in prison [...]

Dear Friends,
While many environmental groups have spent the past year bumbling over climate legislation and devising better list-building and branding strategies, Rising Tide has been building the climate justice movement and challenging the root causes of climate change. Nowhere is this more evident than in the northern Rockies.
Over the past year, climate activists in Montana [...]

At 10:30 a.m. on November 16th, organizers with Climate Justice Ottawa began a People’s Assembly for Climate Justice in Canada’s House of Commons staging a sit-in and dropping a banner that reads “If the Politicians Will Not Get to Work on Climate Justice, We Will.”. The organizers are risking arrest to deliver a message that [...]

This November there will be two climate justice movement-building gatherings in mid-western North America -

The International Tar Sands Resistance Summit will be held from November 19th to 22nd, in Montana.
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1. Why take action from October 12th?
In 2009, indigenous peoples throughout the world called for a [...]

September 27 – Appalachia Rising, a mass convergence on Washington D.C. calling for an end to Mountain Top Removal (MTR) culminated with a march of roughly 2,000 people and arrests of over 115 people. There were actions at the White House, PNC Bank, Department of the Interior, and the Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters. [...]

Engagement à la Résistance contre les Sables Bitumineux [En français ici]
At a recent climate camp in North America, activists began collecting signatures for a tar sands pledge of resistance.  We invite you to sign on to commit to action against a fossil fuel pipeline and pumping project (”Trailbreaker”) that may bring tar sands bitumen through infrastructure across several [...]

The Mobilization for Climate Justice West (MCJ-West) turned out 150 people on a Monday afternoon and marched to the SF financial district offices of Chevron, the Environmental Protection Agency and BP calling for Big Oil to stop harming our environment and communities and pay up for the damage they’ve caused.
A coalition of national, regional and [...]

Once again the fossil fuel industry has brought crisis to the Gulf Coast. Devastation of untold proportions spews non-stop from BP’s oil well as politicians try to save face with empty promises, and oil companies preserve their profits with PR campaigns. This catastrophic spill comes on the heels of Obama’s plan to expand offshore drilling. [...]

Boulder Activists Unfurl Banner and Erect Wind Turbines on Top of Giant Coal Pile

Boulder, CO – At approximately 12:45 today, four activists climbed onto the massive coal pile in front of the Valmont Power Plant. An enormous banner was deployed down the front of the coal pile reading “RENEWABLES NOW” and two large mock [...]